Rocktimism (Again)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No P&J poll today because I am too busy. BUT a reminder that it's POPTIMISM tomorrow!

Meanwhile you can talk about the strange and fearsome world of Pazz And Jop Album Winners if you like.


1971 - The Who - Who's Next
1974 - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
1975 - Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1978 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1979 - Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
1980 - The Clash - London Calling
1981 - The Clash - Sandinista!
1982 - Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1984 - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
1985 - Talking Heads - Little Creatures
1986 - Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
1990 - Neil Young - Ragged Glory
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...
1993 - Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994 - Hole - Live Through This
1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
1996 - Beck - Odelay
1997 - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
1998 - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
1999 - Moby - Play
2000 - OutKast - Stankonia
2001 - Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 - OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2004 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005 - Kanye West - Late Registration


How many of them have you owned? (My answer: unlucky 13)

Comments

Kanye

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else wince a little actually seeing those two Kanye albums back-to-back? I like him and all, and better him than Lucinda Williams I guess, but jeez...

Re: Kanye

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They're not my personal favourites of either year but they are both incredible albums - both were top 5 easily for me! They're probably the least wincey bit of the list.

Re: Kanye

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

It's something about the back-to-back though--I like them well enough (though I can't remember the last time I actually listened to them) but it just seems so your-dad-trying-to-be-cool. I guess that's actually Wilco, but still, it feels like a very default choice. "I must respect pop music, so here you go. And I guess rock sucked this year anyway." I guess defaults are what win P&J though.

Re: Kanye

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure Dylan is going to win this year's P&J :(

Re: Kanye

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

That's sort of comforting though, like an uncle who's taken to wearing flashy clothes going back to his ugly but familar style.

Re: Kanye

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

maybe, but it will really show how weak the year has been (not that Dylan album is necess. weak itself - this is the thing, i'm sure it is good but i have no desire to listen to it at all - woo ignorance/prejudice!)

Re: Kanye

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I got it ages ago but have not listened yet even tho I really like the last one.

Perhaps tonight will be BOB NIGHT.

Re: Kanye

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Well that would be true of virtually anything good (ie poppy, forward-thinking, popular) which won!

Defaults win everything :(

Re: Kanye

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

I think it's the two in a row, though, just seems kinda unimaginative. It's great that he won one year but surely one of those years there must have been something else everyone could get behind...